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...Missiles of October. An ABC Theatre dramatization of White House meetings during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. A strong cast plays the best and the brightest. Ch. 5,8 p.m. 3 (count 'em) hours...
...without flourishes, largely without heights and depths. After a bumpy overture, the chorus of "gentlemen of Japan" appears on stage in hideous white makeup and nondescript floppy bathrobes. The one conceivable excuse for the makeup--trying to make everyone look alike in a "seen one Jap you've seen 'em all" kind of way--is hardly achieved and hardly worth trying for. But this is the kind of mistake that you can get used to in the course of a production. Worse is a lack of imagination in characterization, delivery, choreography, lighting and musical arrangement...
...wisdom that Lady revealed to Woody strikes some people as priceless. "Man is made to suffer, they say," she once opined. On another of many "memorable" occasions, she tossed off one of her best remarks: "People are people wherever you go." No, they don't make 'em like Lady any more...
...didn't want to shut 'em up. These men were guilty ... We just didn't, we didn't want 'em to talk to the press...
Tuck It To 'Em...